The next morning, Saralie went to school with Zoe. The school was different from what Saralie expected. The classes harder than those at home and the kids, Saralie could tell by looking at them, were far smarter. Saralie smiled, she loved challenges. This school, she knew, could provide them. Zoe showed her cousin to an open seat and then went to speak with the teacher. He nodded and turned to the class. "Class," he said, "We have a new student. Her Name is Saralie Carter. She just moved from," he stopped, not knowing where Saralie was from.
"Wisconsin," Saralie supplied for the teacher.
"I'm Doctor Naarom," he introduced himself to her. She shook hands with her teacher and was handed a Data-pad for class. She took notes twice as fast as anyone else and when Dr. Naarom gave out class work, you would have thought that she had been in the class the longest. She forwarded her work to the teacher and set to work at hacking into the school computers. The minute Saralie managed to get into the school network, Dr. Naarom started giving notes again. Saralie managed to hide the hacking to take her notes. This way she could continue to find her quarry when she finished her next assignment. By the end of class, Saralie had infiltrated the school system beyond belief. She was up to her old tricks, changing pass codes, making it respond to fingerprint scans only, and only her own fingerprint would be recognized.
Saralie was glad she had the forethought to put a fingerprint scanner on her laptop, and she was an amazing actor. No one believed that Saralie was the one who had hacked into the school computers. Of course, she'd get rid of the fingerprint scan at home and help to solve the codes that the hacker had changed. She'd end up being a teacher's pet for solving the problem and no one would be the wiser to her plan. Once she had helped fix the network, she would be able to access the other Data-pads and watch what the other students were doing. Finding mistakes and sending notes. Saralie would have laughed at them all, but that would have drawn attention to her. She put the last touches to her hack job, as in the adjustments not being in action until after school ended.
After school, Saralie began talking with some people in her class. She targeted the best and brightest of her classmates. She had done the same thing in her old town, every year, she would make a network of those who she could help most and they would help her in return. She was friendly and kind, asking about the town, the way any new student would do. She made friends with the smartest people in her class, and then targeted the people at the lower end of the class, those having trouble with their work.
"Hi," she said to them. "I noticed that you were having trouble with your work today. Would you like some help with it sometime?" She smiled sweetly; she really did want to help them. She had arranged to help several of them after school the next day before Zoe ran up to meet up with her.
"Hi Zoe!" Saralie cried, smiling at her cousin broadly. Just then, her uncle pulled up to take them home.